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How to install XP with SATA optical drives and hard disk?

Wasn't the hardware. XP does not have native SATA support of any kind. I was loading from a SATA DVD-Rom. Got Vista, popped the DVD in, loaded just fine and the computer is running now with all drivers installed. No hardware conflicts anywhere.
Just to be certain, I am running Orthos and then memtest next.
 
Yeah orthos and memtest passed. But I cant keep vista on that computer as it is on a different comptuer. I tried reinstalling XP again, and it starts to read the disk, then I get error message that happens so fast I can not even read what it says before the computer shuts down. It's a retail version of XP home full.
 
No clue, back when I did it I used XP Pro and I think it had SP2 slipstreamed so that might be why it worked for me.
 
Slipstream in the SATA drivers for your motherboard (and the chipset INFs, and a video driver or two, etc.) and you can solve the entire issue quite easily. nLite makes it all trivial.

An alternative is to flip the SATA devices on your board to legacy or non-matrix mode, in which case they should work with XP's generic IDE driver. Some suggest you give up performance and/or flexibility in doing so, though.
 
If the version of XP is pre sp2, you might want to try slipstreaming SP2 with XP prior to installing the operating system.
 
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